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  title info:
    title: Constructing a nervous system
    sub title: a memoir
  name:
    name part: Jefferson, Margo
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  genre: Anecdotes.
  genre: Autobiography
  genre: Anecdotes
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 197 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
  abstract: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is determined by signal moments of her life, those that trouble her as well as those that thrill and restore. In this nervous system: The sounds of a black spinning disc of a 1950's jazz LP as intimate and instructive as a parent's voice. The muscles and movements of a ballerina, spliced with those of an Olympic runner: template for what a female body could be. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy finds her way into the art of Kara Walker and the songs of Cécile McLorin Salvant. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner become alter egos. W.E.B. DuBois and George Eliot meet illicitly, as he appropriates lines from her story "The Hidden Veil" to write his famous "behind the veil" passages in The Souls of Black Folk. The words of multiple others (writers, singers, film characters, friends, family) act as prompts and as dialogue. The fragments of this brilliant book, while not neglecting family, race, and class, are informed by a kind of aesthetic drive: longing, ecstasy, or even acute ambivalence. Constructing a nervous system is Jefferson's relentlessly galvanizing mis en scene for unconventional storytelling as well as a platform for unexpected dramatis personae"--
  target audience: adult
  note: Margo Jefferson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195).
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    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jefferson, Margo
      name part: 1947-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jefferson, Margo
      name part: 1947-
  subject:
    topic: African American women
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American women critics
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social life and customs
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: Noires américaines
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Femmes critiques noires américaines
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Noirs américains
    topic: Identité ethnique
  subject:
    topic: Noirs américains
    topic: Vie intellectuelle
  subject:
    topic: Noirs américains
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Relations raciales
    topic: Histoire
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / General
  subject:
    topic: African American women
  subject:
    topic: African American women critics
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: African American women
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social life and customs
    genre: Anecdotes
  classification: E185.97.J44 A3 2022
  classification: 305.896/073
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Constructing a nervous system
    name:
      name part: Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2022]
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2021029572
  identifier: 9781524748173
  identifier: 152474817X
  identifier: 9781524748180
  identifier: 2021029571
  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR/DLC
    record creation date: 210710
    record change date: 20220519151518.9
    record identifier: in00004652225
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng